Improved washing-machine



NAPEYERS. PHOTO-LITNOGHAPHER. wAsmNGTuN. D. c.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

oYEUsfrrrLL, or EoXcEoFr, MAINE.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 102,261, dated April 26, 1870.

T0 all whom, L' 77mg con/cern.

Be it known that I, CYEUs HILL, of AFoxcroft,in the county of Piscataquis and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improved Washing-liachine; and I hereby declare the following to be full, clear, and eX- act description thereof, which will enable others to make and use my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which is seen a top plan of my improvement, the cover being thrown back or open, and the arrangement ofthe interior indicated. and also aperspective view of the exterior of the machine, showing the crank by which the rubbers are revolved.

a shows certain arms attachedto a pivot, b, which projects up on the outside of the cover of the machine, and is there movd backward and forward by gearing or other devices, as common.

c c show arms extending down into themachine, by the motion ot' which the articles to be worked, as well as the water in which they are placed, are disturbed and agitated. These devices I do not claim by themselves, as they are embraced in another patent.

The receptacle for the clothes is seen at d, and may be made either rectangular or circular in form. Jaround its walls are set and attached certain triangularly shaped or A- shaped projections, e, with the base of the A attached to the sides of the receptacle. These are arranged all around the Walls of the interior of the machine at such regular distances as maybe desirable. On the bottom of the inside are also placed the similarlyshaped pieces f, but arranged, as shown, in a diagonal direction. These start from the middle of the receptacle and run parallel toward the walls, but do not quite reach them, butI have small spaces between their ends and the walls and vertical projections lon the same. It will be observed that the entire inner surface of the washing-machine is covered with these projections, those 'on the walls and those v on the bottom being irregular in reference to each other.

The operation is that the friction or moving of the clothes against the corrugations or projections on the 4interior of the receptacle, caused by the rotation of the rnbbersand. the variety of currents made in the Water, soon and eftectually remove the dirt from the clothes and other articles to be washed, and the direction of the projections on the bottom is such that there is no danger of tearing the articles,

as the spaces between the projections are in direction corresponding to the rotary motion of the rollers.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The Washing-machine having the vertical V-shaped projections e, arranged parallel to each other on the interior faces ot' the Walls of the said machine, the diagonally-arranged projections f on the bottom thereof, and the space d, as herein described.

OYRUS HILL. Witnesses:

H. C. PREN'rIss, M. G. PRENTIss. 

